Motivational Quotes

Success

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

- Anna Quindlen

Best Quotes about Success

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy